meaning of birth
1. The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
2. Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
3. The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
4. The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.
5. That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
6. Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.
7. See Berth.
8. the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first
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